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Forging a new deal for doctors requires a new approach
Doctors will no doubt blame all of these problems on inadequate resources, ignoring the fact Canada’s health care system is comparatively a high-spender with doctors who are well-paid. At least some of our poor performance internationally must be attributable to how physicians run their practices and treat their patients… The problem is that the sum of what may be best for each individual patient may not be what is best for Ontarians or Canadians as a whole.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights, tax
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Help the aged through a new health accord
It’s vital for Ottawa to oversee the evolution of medicare. That’s the best way to set shared national priorities and establish universal standards suited to Canadians’ 21st-century needs… Health transfers are currently issued on a per-capita basis, failing to take into account far heavier costs associated with caring for the aged… “there are large discrepancies across the country when it comes to the health care services available to seniors, particularly in pharmacare, home care, long-term care and palliative care,”
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living, tax
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Kathleen Wynne is this close to ending cash-for-access. Don’t stop now
… there are still two big problems with Bill 201. One is the inclusion of a taxpayer-funded subsidy of $2.71 per vote… Per-vote subsidies are pure cash grabs. Political parties can and do raise more than enough money directly from small donors… The other is the lack of any regulation to prevent parties from selling access to politicians… opposition parties… have proposed amendments that would explicitly ban the practice. Mr. Naqvi should consider them.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, tax
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As healthcare overhaul looms, battlelines drawn
What the country needs is a holistic approach to health, as Dr. Philpott suggested this week in offering as one of several solutions a serious look at the “socio-economic” factors affecting health. The logical conclusion is that governments must at least think about embracing universal daycare, pharmacare and denticare, which certain successful European societies have long ago done… The feds will have to put their money where their social-engineering ambitions are, covering something close to half of sub-government healthcare spending, long ago slashed to the current 20 per cent or so.
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What to consider when you consider giving to charity
As a major Oxfam report pointed out earlier this year, in 2015 the wealth of the richest 62 people on Earth was $1.76-trillion and growing fast. Forbes calculates there are 1,826 billionaires in the world, worth a total of $7.05-trillion… In a rational, decent world, [charities wouldn’t] need to go around begging for 10 more dollars to deal with humanitarian emergencies. But it’s not and they do… get angrier about obscene inequality. You won’t be sorry.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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Canadians giveth, the taxman taketh away
Taxes, and taxes alone, take more of our income than they used to. Canadians’ taxes, including business taxes hidden in the price of goods and services, have increased almost 2,000 per cent, nearly three times the rate of inflation. From a third of our income in 1961, all taxes combined now take more than 40 per cent. Why? … the list of things Canadians were presumed unable to do for themselves, or do well, has expanded on many fronts, from health care to charity. And so the state has expanded dramatically as it takes on added tasks.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Keep the tax on online imports and stop favouring U.S. interests
… there has been a one-sided push by online U.S. retailers, shipping companies like UPS, FedEx and DHL, as well as the Washington-based Canadian American Business Council, to pressure Ottawa to boost Canada’s $20 exemption limit on products entering Canada to $200. It is an attempt to alter our tax system to benefit online retail companies located abroad. It would also steamroll small and medium-sized Canadian retailers in communities across Canada.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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How far are Ontario doctors prepared to push their demands?
Those who cheer on the Ontario’s doctors’ vote as a defeat for the Wynne government and the OMA’s much-criticized leadership must say how much they willing to pay to satisfy the doctors… are Ontario’s doctors themselves willing to support higher taxes in order to finance the higher fees they feel they need to provide proper services? Alternatively, what would they suggest the government cut in order to give them a bigger budget for their services?
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Dinging the rent-seekers
Business leaders try to maximize economic rents; economists try to keep them as close to zero as possible… winners aren’t much interested in abandoning their privileged status in order to increase total incomes. And since rent-seekers are invariably well-connected in political circles… they’re usually pretty good at defending their positions… Moreover, the usual policy remedies for dealing with rent seeking are losing political support…. figuring out the technicalities of taxing economic rents is going to move higher up on the policy agenda.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Our great health-care spendfests
The Howe report warns against yielding to the provinces’ demands. “There is evidence to suggest that provinces find it easier to spend federal money than to spend the revenues they raise on their own”… Provincial leaders need to answer to their voters when they increase taxes, fees or levies due to their inability to control their spending urges, but face no such pressure if they can wheedle the money out of the federal treasury rather than their own.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, tax
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